Walden Pond
Americannoun
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His mother, who introduced him at age 5 to Walden Pond, was an abolitionist who ran a station on the Underground Railroad, for which he would act as a conductor.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Our teachers took us to Plymouth Rock, Bunker Hill, Walden Pond, Salem, and most novel for a group of teenage Manhattanites, a real-life mall, the kind we saw only on television.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
After living on both coasts, he moved back to New England to a rural spot one town over from Walden Pond.
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
Thoreau thoroughly documented the dates, locations and descriptions of observations that he made as he walked around Walden Pond and greater Concord.
From Salon • Nov. 8, 2022
It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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